Category Archives: Video

garcua

In a new episode of the PBS Blank On Blank animated interview series, the late Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead talks to Joe Smith in 1988 about the early days of the band, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest author Ken Kesey and the infamous ‘acid test’ parties of the late 60s.

Previously: ‘I Didn’t Know Until This Year That The Name Cobain Was Irish’

laughingsquid

ARwear

How do you know the world is a terrible place?

Because this may soon be an actual thing that you can buy.

A line of ‘lockable underwear’ from ARWear, currently funding on Indiegogo, patent pending and still in development, anti-rape pants are shorts with cut-and-tear-resistant bands that prevent an unwanted assailant from removing them forcefully. Only the wearer can take them off by rotating two levers at specific angles at the front.

ohgizmo

FE4CE9F5344F481335FD183885781D45Mount-Taranaki-from-SpaceMount Taranaki in New Zealand photographed spectacularly from space. Once mooted as a location for the Lonely Mountain In the Hobbit Trilogy, a digital mockup of Mount Cook was used instead.

Never mind that. Here’s the new Desolation of Smaug trailer anyway.

theonering/likecool/wired

hammer

In this quasi-promo for Marvel’s upcoming Thor sequel, master swordsmith Tony Swatton and his crew forge a chromoly steel replica of that hammer at Tony’s Burbank California workshop.

Previously: Forging Gimli’s Axe

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